In 4A girls play, Chiawana hosts Lewis & Clark at 5 p.m. in a semifinal, while University visits Central Valley in a 6 p.m. semifinal. In loser-out games, Gonzaga Prep visits Richland at 4 p.m., while Walla Walla is at Pasco at 5 p.m.

Both 3A and 4A tournaments had games already scheduled for next Tuesday. They are now moved to Wednesday, Feb. 13. In addition, the WIAA cancelled all regional wrestling tournaments scheduled for this weekend, and instead will double the size of the state championships in Tacoma, going from a 16-wrestler bracket to a 32-wrestler bracket for every weight class in every classification.

The only exception was the Camas 4A regional, which had 16 wrestlers per weight class and included the Mid-Columbia Conference 4A schools. They were going to wrestle two rounds on Friday, paring the field to eight wrestlers per weight class.

Those eight wrestlers will advance to state.

The Camas tournament will not run on Saturday.

Basketball recap

All of the top seeds who played in the District 8 basketball tournament won their openers this week, through Thursday night.

Ferris 80, Hanford 55: Reece Van Lierop had 27 to lead Ferris, while Connor Woodward had 24 for visiting Hanford.

University 60, Chiawana 46: Visiting U-High outscored Chiawana 41-26 in the second half. Logan Phillips and Marcus Lenker had 17 points each for the Titans, while Kobe Young scored 16 for the Riverhawks.

A prep basketball record: Kittitas/Thorp’s Brock Ravet set the state career scoring record on Friday, Feb. 1, in the EWAC boys basketball league tournament. Ravet scored his 2,852nd point in his team’s 72-22 victory over Walla Walla Valley Academy. That broke the 16-year-old record that Sunnyside Christian’s Lance den Boer had. By the way, Ravet’s teammate, Caleb Harris, also scored his 1,000th career point in the same game.

College signings

▪ Kamiakin wrestler Austin Almaguer announced on Twitter this week that he will wrestle for Campbell University next year. …

▪ Richland grad Dontae Powell signed this week to play football at Portland State. Now wait a minute, you say, didn’t he commit to WSU? Yes he did, last fall. But the two parties agreed to go their separate ways when Powell determined he wouldn’t be done with his studies in December and get his associate degree at Arizona Western JC. Instead, Powell tweeted that he would be done in May and have three years to get in his remaining two years of eligibility for Portland State. He’ll join Kamiakin grad Korbin Sorensen on the Vikings’ offensive line. …

▪ Richland senior Jack Schuster signed with the University of Idaho this week. …

▪ Hermiston quarterback Andrew James decided to go to La Grande, signing with Eastern Oregon University on Thursday. …

▪ Umatilla LB Trent Durfey has signed to play football at Carroll College in Montana.

Local sports news & notes

▪ Congrats to Whitman College’s women’s basketball coach Michelle Ferenz. Her Blues beat Whitworth 89-78 on Jan. 29, giving Ferenz her career 300th victory as Whitman’s coach. Her daughter, Mikayla Ferenz (Walla Walla), became the University of Idaho’s all-time leading scorer in women’s basketball on Thursday, Feb. 7, when she scored on a layup in a 76-68 win over visiting Montana. That gave Ferenz the record at 2,142 points.

▪ The owners of the Kootenay Ice of the Western Hockey League held a press conference last week to announce they are moving the franchise to Winnipeg starting in the 2019-20 season. They’ll be known as the Winnipeg Ice. The Kootenay team visited the Tri-City Americans on Friday.

▪ According to the Spokesman Review’s Ryan Collingwood, Richland grad and basketball standout Steven Beo, because of injuries, will sit out this season and apply for a redshirt year at Eastern Washington University. Beo played as a true freshman at BYU two seasons ago, then transferred to EWU and sat out last season due to transfer rules.

▪ BYU’s Andrea Stapleton-Johnson (Kamiakin) cleared 6 feet, 1.5 inches in the women’s high jump event at the Air Force Team Challenge last week. That not only gave her the event victory, but she has the nation’s top leap this season.

▪ Emilee Maldonado (Sunnyside) scored 31 points as the Providence women’s basketball team beat Rocky Mountain College 64-60 on Saturday, Feb. 2, in Frontier Conference play. That earned her the Frontier Conference Player of the Week award.

▪ Kassin Hopkins (Connell) had an outstanding game as the Willamette University women’s basketball team beat Linfield College 74-52 last weekend. Hopkins had 8 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists in the victory.

▪ OK. We have snow. But take heart in knowing that college baseball season has begun for some schools around the Northwest. That includes Lewis-Clark State College, which has four Tri-City pitchers on its roster this season: Matt Driver (Kennewick), Gerald Hein (Kennewick), Easton Henke (Kamiakin) and Tanner Simpson (CBC). The Warriors split a four-game set with Concordia of Portland last weekend. In a 17-1 win, Hein got the start (no decision), pitching 3 innings of shutout ball, while striking out 4. In a 7-6 win on Saturday, Driver pitched 3.2 innings of scoreless relief, surrendered just one hit, and struck out 8.

▪ Savannah Egbert (Connell) had a single, run, RBI and a stolen base to lead the CWU women’s softball team to a 3-1 win over Hawaii Hilo in the season opener on Feb. 1.

▪ Navy beat Army 4680 to 4666 in a college rifle competition on Feb. 2. Navy’s Daniel Enger (Walla Walla) placed sixth in the individual smallbore event, and was seventh in individual air rifle. Maddy Erickson (Walla Walla) is on Army’s rifle roster, but she did not compete in this event.

▪ Brooke Wheeler (Prosser) scored 18 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and had five blocked shots, but it wasn’t enough as the Blue Mountain Community College’s women’s basketball team lost 67-50 to Treasure Valley in an NWAC East game on Jan. 30.

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Richland takes on Mt. Si while Chiawana faces Puyallup. The Bombers have a berth in next week’s Class 4A state basketball tournament in Tacoma. The Riverhawks advance with a win. Both games are Friday night.